Re-Thinking the Political Economy of Punishment: Perspectives on Post-Fordism and Penal Politics

Author:   Alessandro De Giorgi ,  Professor David Nelken
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Edition:   New edition
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9780754626107


Pages:   184
Publication Date:   28 May 2006
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Alessandro De Giorgi ,  Professor David Nelken
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   New edition
Weight:   0.408kg
ISBN:  

9780754626107


ISBN 10:   0754626105
Pages:   184
Publication Date:   28 May 2006
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Contents: Introduction; The political economy of penality and the sociology of punishment - past and present; Post-Fordism and the emergence of the multitude; The government of surplus - preliminary incursions in the field of post-Fordist social control; Mass confinement and actuarial penology; The criminalization of international migrations - toward an actuarial model of control; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

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'With Re-thinking the Political Economy of Punishment, Alessandro De Giorgi has been the first to update and complete the 1970s revisionist literature of punishment and social control - from Rusche and Kirchheimer to Foucault - for the age of postfordism and imperial globalization!' Dario Melossi, University of Bologna, Italy 'In this strikingly original work, Alessandro De Giorgi revitalizes the tradition of scholarship in the political economy of punishment for our new, but no less troubled, times. In re-examining the boundaries and exclusions where post-disciplinary control is exercised, De Giorgi offers both a powerful new analysis and a timely warning.' Richard Sparks, University of Edinburgh, UK 'In this remarkable work, De Giorgi takes the daunting task of sorting out decades of writings on the political economy and convincingly situates them into a coherent framework explaining punishment in a post-Fordist world...With an eye for good format, the author provides an exhaustive review of literature on the political economy while extracting new insights that can be applied to recent shifts in punishment and institutional corrections.' British Society of Criminology '...this book is a significant contribution to the political economy of punishment. De Giorgi has done scholars working within the sociology of punishment a great service in tracing the lineage of this perspective and carrying it beyond the 1970s to the present. Hopefully, others choosing to follow the path he has cleared will apply the same energy and enthusiasm with which he embraces this theoretical perspecitve to addressing some of its limitations.' Theoretical Criminology


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Alessandro De Giorgi has a PhD in Criminology from Keele University, UK. He is a researcher in Criminology in the Faculty of Law at the University of Bologna, Italy. His main research interests are in global migrations and the political economy of social control in contemporary societies.

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